Kia Ditlevsen

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Kia Ditlevsen’s research centers on social inequality and its expression in food consumption, lifestyle and health behavior. 

Research areas:

• Social inequality and its expression in consumption, lifestyle and health.
• Everyday life and food practices.
• Eating and diet-related health among underprivileged groups in society.
• Contemporary food- and consumption culture.
• Gendered norms.
• Qualitative methods.

Current research projects: 

- Food as distinction and practice. Food, eating and sustainability among different social classes (2023-2025). Funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

- Eating up the crisis. Cultural change seen through the lens of food (CrisisCultureFood) (2024-2027). Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, Semper Ardens: Accelerate.

- Fremtidens økologiske forbruger og muligheder for økologisk markedsudvikling (ØKO-KOST) (2024-2027) (substudy). Funded by ICROFS.

- ’Proper’ food under economic constraints: Gendered food practices and dietary health among socioeconomically disadvantaged. Funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (2019-2022). 

Teaching

Course coordinator and lecturer in the Master level courses The Sociology of Food and Eating (IFRO, KU) and Introduction to Social Science Methods (IFRO, KU). Course coordinator and lecturer in PhD course Qualitative methods, design and fieldwork.

Fields of interest

Inequality, poverty, gender, health and regulation, health policy, interactions, food sociology, sociology of health and illness, food consumption, sustainability